The phone rings up with an earth shattering tone . my wife picks up and I hear saying ….oh no !!!!! . Immediately I get up and asked her what happened . Her close friends husband had expired and she was wailing like anything .
I knew her friend quite well but had not met her husband . Immediatelythe only thing that came into my mind was that she needed help . when I reachedthere I was surprised that no one cared to drape him with a white cloth . Iwent around the house and got one and draped him promptly after checking his pulse . As I was doing this I felt a kind of brotherly affection towards a man I never met . he seemed so frail and so in deep sleep . the neighbours came andwent like a circus but most of them were into lip service . This was supposed to be the high class people but why were they behaving like this ? One lady came and remarked to me ….look at their pet dog …she is sitting quietly …how sad . I just looked at her and was about to say her ……… , but could not , as this was not the time and place .
Because he was very young (36) , the postmortem had to be done , again the ugly face of DELHI cropped up . There was not a person along with the father . This was my first time to a city mortuary .I did not know what made me go there ..maybe I understood the pain of losing someone all of a sudden . I walked up to him and told him to sit in his car while I would talk to the people there .
The stench was overpowering …the smell of death was all too pervasive . but as if I was sleep walking . I walked up to the mortician and asked him as to when he would start. He asked me to bring some jars for the forensic reports . From there we took the body back home but the insensitivity did not end there .
Somebody remarked his face was looking black , did he take something ?? Even in the crematorium …..it was like a shot from the movie PAGE 3 . Rich people with their eyes covered with big goggles to hide from the glare stood there . They came as if they were registering their presence !!!!!!!! Here in the crematorium there was this obnoxious show of wealth . how come anybody would be so insensitive to other people’s feelings ?
this same feeling came up when I put on the TV and saw most of the channels covering AARUSHI murder case.why people cant just mourn the death of a young child and the loss of the parents !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!. Every person worth his salt was commenting on the illicit relationship , the parents character etc etc etc .The worse was that even the dead was not spared ? what kind of satisfaction were we deriving out of this ? Even we bloggers did not spare them . every TOM, DICK & HARRY had to analyze . Who are these people who are so insensitive to others people feelings ??????? why couldnt we mourn the fact that a young kid had died a terrible death and that she deserved better !!!!!
The other day one blogger put a quote by the famous actor WOODY ALLEN . Well my immediate reaction was to tell that person that this actor was a lecherous person and that he was incestuous . I did not see the fact that the quote was quite nice and that the person might have been a fan of the actor . My insensitivity got the better of me .why couldn’t I just accept the fact that somebody liked some quote from a man who was not exactly DIGNITY PERSONIFIED and that I was supposed to enjoy the quote and not the person (literally speaking ).
I guess we all have to take the blame for the kind of society we have got ourselves into . I definitely am doing my part to be little more sensitive towards fellow humans . I guess we all owe this to the world we live in .
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